This project actually began in 1992
in a hotel room in Atlanta. Five War Wagon Pilots and one Crusader/C&C
pilot got together for the first ever un-organized, un-official, giant
“Romeo Fox-trot” reunion.

Rick Waite, "War Wagon 16/19" and I,
"War Wagon 14", began gathering data about the unit from various sources.
Rick's profession led him to contact many former D Troopers and to archive
tons of photographs and documents. Many can be viewed on these pages.

With the intent to someday produce
a not-for-profit book for everyone in the Unit, I started assembling
a "works" in book form with many contributing authors. Over the years I
have compiled a large amount of historical data about the unit, but there
is so much more to be collected. The "works" have become huge and there
is still so much left to be recorded.

The internet seemed to be a good medium
to make some of the information available to fellow troopers and the World
in general.

Not all of "Light Horse's" stuff is
here because we don't want some pecker-wood stealing it an making money
off of a book and we all know that some aspects of our history is inappropriate
even for the Internet.

“Scavenger” Don Armstrong was instrumental
in providing a lot of historical data through his efforts at the National
Archives and contacting old Trooper friends and picking the brains of new
ones.

Claude Stevens, Long Knife Crewcheif,
holds the honor and distinction of having had enough interest and dedication
5 years ago to create the first D Troop Home Page. His failing health has
prevented him from continuing that endeavor. This web site merely an extension
of his ideas and work.

Thanks to Mike Rasbury for providing
photos, documents and so much of the information regarding Ace Cozzalio.

Hat's off to Hunter Jones and George
Rein who rounded up so many Dough Boys and contributed lots of material
pertaining to their tours.

I must heartily thank all of the guys
who have dug out their closets, garages and attics across America, the
guys who even risked pissing off ex-wives and new wives to gather and to
contribute the material seen on our pages.

Most of the information on this site
is factual and verified. Most of the “War Stories”, are pretty accurate
and verifiable. Many of the stories in the "Legends" section are lacking
only in author's names for verification and then addition to the "Stories
Pages".

The rule I have used is that if a story
is substantiated and collaborated by at least two people, then I consider
it to be an accurate representation.

As our memories fade with age,
the axiom

“The older I get, the better I was”,

sometimes rings true :-)

There are some terrific stories
about the men who served in “Light Horse”. There are also some terrific
legends about “Light Horsemen”. Research has found that some of
the tales about “Light Horse” troopers may actually have happened to people
in other units. These are great stories and have not been rejected but
have been respectfully stored on the “Legends” Page of this site.

This is
where you can help if you have knowledge of these events. Please contact
me so I can record the "Straight shit".

Much of our material is really still
incomplete and I plead with any former D Trooper to add what they know
help improve the accuracy of the historicalevents.

Many of the graphics on this site were contributed
by John Conway of the the VHPA
Museum.

Robert Kirby, MCP and Doug Hallas of 3/5
Cav Vets have also contributed numerous graphics.